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arostecrux
Jun 25, 2003, 1:16 AM
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I came off from 20 feet, the last bolt 9 feet below me, the one i needed to clip right by my left thigh. I came down up sidedown pendulum style and knocked over a chalkbag on the ground with my head....
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data118
Jun 25, 2003, 2:23 AM
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In the news today @ NYC: baby infant fell (actually thrown out) from the 7th floor (80ft) hit a few branches. Baby found lying on some mulch by a tree. Only scratches and bruises, I think. :shock:
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fredbob
Jun 25, 2003, 2:33 AM
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Its kinda strange, but the longest fall I ever took was while I was following a pitch. The pitch traversed under a roof, then up a corner and then back and up. I was standing on a very large knob below the roof, with both hands occupied with the chalk bag and the knob blew. I pulled most of the gear the leader had in and went about 60 feet down. I was so shocked (knob blowing and taking such a long fall on "TR") that I was pretty shaken. Then I had to lead the next pitch... thin face on knobs. I was sure every knob was going to break on me. Funny in retrospect.
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pt
Jun 25, 2003, 3:49 AM
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I grounded from the second pitch of a route at lumpy ridge in Colorado. This was a long time ago and the standard rope length was 150 feet at the time. I figure with knots and my partner being tied in to the anchor, there was probably 130 feet of rope to work with. The rope caught me some ways off the ground but with rope stretch I still hit bottom. I figure the fall was between 135-145 feet. I broke both ankles and hurt my back. Belayer error (faulty use of a figure 8) was why I wasn't stopped sooner! I just fell until the rope came tight on my partner. Luckily the anchor held and he wasn't killed.
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tyify
Jun 25, 2003, 8:06 AM
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This is the reason I don't like figure 8's....Ouch...You have to get pins and screws?? Dear god that would hurt...
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ajkclay
Jun 25, 2003, 11:26 AM
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the biggest drop I ever took was safe, but it hurt my boyos soooo bad!
It was safe because it was at the gym where I used to climb.
I was on my first ever lead, and to prove that you wouldn't freak out you had to jump from the top with your last clip below your feet on this face above an overhang. At a height of 12m I was told to jump, so I did, and my belayer had paid out a lot of slack, so I dropped to about 3m above the ground (about a 9m fall), and I am sure that certain things in my shorts kept moving when the rest of me stopped, and touched the ground.
I walked like John Wayne for a couple of days. :lol:
Nice intro to leading huh?
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tyify
Jun 26, 2003, 6:21 AM
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I"m glad I"m just a wimpy sport climber...so far...I don't really like the prospect of blowing out protection...
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rrrADAM
Jun 26, 2003, 12:37 PM
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Two 40+ footers, both Trad...
1 40 footer on Castleton Tower on a Yellow Alien.
1 40+ footer at Mt Lemmon on a #9 BD Stopper.
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tyify
Jun 28, 2003, 9:57 PM
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What injuries do you guys sustain from all this crazy falling?
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rrrADAM
Jun 28, 2003, 11:19 PM
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Not even a scrape from my two above mentioned falls.
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tyify
Jun 28, 2003, 11:50 PM
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Lucky..Lucky...Lucky...
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loinclothman
Jun 30, 2003, 12:16 AM
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I fell from about 10 feet right on my back (stupid heelhook) just to the right of my crashpad. no injuries, just couldn't breathe.
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flying_dutchman
Jun 30, 2003, 12:52 AM
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I've taken 2 twenty footers; the first one from twenty feet up... walked out of a hospital five hours later. The second one was from close to 3 pitches up and only left me a little bloodied and shaken.
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clymber
Jun 30, 2003, 12:54 AM
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I took a about a 30 or 40' i think in Rumney on a 11a call Cerail killer...mis counted the bolts and ran out a slab to the face...was at the anchors and getting ready to clip in when i peeled...have to thank hangerlessbolt for the catch
inside at a gym we were working a dyno skiping the last to drws...if you miss its about a 25 or 30'
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pinktricam
Jun 30, 2003, 3:08 AM
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A 20+ft. inverted fall at Cathedral Ledge, North Conway, NH on a bomber 2.5 Camp Tricam. Just scrapes and bruises.
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micahmcguire
Jun 30, 2003, 5:39 PM
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about 20 feet. I was about ten feet from my last placement, a #5 nut, on pitch two of a climb here in the Chugach, sporting a new pair of shoes when they slipped unexpectedly. I wound up landing feetfirst on a ledge and taking almost all the force of the fall. The rope barely started to go taught by the time I hit. Fortunately the only injuries I received were to my hands as I clawed at the rock on the way down. Fun climb!
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tyify
Jul 14, 2003, 7:39 AM
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I've now taken a 16 footer now...From the top of my wall...It hurt a bunch...Went for a crimper and missed...SPLAT..Landed on the pad with most of my body except my elbow which hit the cement..
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elrojobdugs
Jul 19, 2003, 5:51 AM
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a 30 footer on trad... my foot hold broke and one of my camelots umbrellaed
a 30 footer+ i got to the chains and couldnt hold on longer... so instead of cheating and grabbing the chains... or being smart and climbing down a little i just pendulumed
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livinforadrnalin
Jul 25, 2003, 10:28 PM
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I took about a 12 foot fall doing a pretty hard dyno in my local gym. I swung off the hold and fell straight down with no pad underneath me landing on my side and breaking a rib
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peanutbutterandjelly
Jul 25, 2003, 10:48 PM
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The longest fall on trad I took was 20 feet and it was one of my first leads. Sport climbing my longest fall was around 25 feet and bouldering my longest was 16-18 feet.
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sspssp
Jul 25, 2003, 11:14 PM
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My longest fall (slide actually) was on Glacier Apron. Not sure the exact distance, but it was far enough to wear a hole through my climbing shoe. I held it up and I could see daylight coming through. And it was a pretty new shoe.
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ricardol
Jul 25, 2003, 11:25 PM
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longest fall was when my belayer at a gym made a mistake and forgot to belay me .. (or sumthing - i never found out why there was somuch slack) .. on TR even ..
i fell about 20' and came withina foot of decking
on TR!.
-- ricardo
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hasbeen
Jul 25, 2003, 11:34 PM
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hmm, let's see, the 160-footer was the longest (most of a hook/head pitch) when a 40' block decided to detach. My last 'real' piece (small stopper) caught me.
But also went 40' to the ground (dropped off a sportclimb), which should have been worse.
Somehow walked away from both.
7 lives to go, except now that I'm thinkin' about it I've used up a few more. I'd better watch my step from here on in, though what the hell for? Like Rodney Dangerfield said, "My doctor told me that if I take perfect care of myself for the rest of my life, I'll get very sick and die."
Live it up, kids!
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tyify
Jul 30, 2003, 10:22 PM
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Very good quote at the end there!
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traddad
Aug 1, 2003, 1:15 PM
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10,000 ft onto a black and orange Paradactyl. I did that over 80 times.
:). As for rock climbing, a couple of 25 footers. One on a nut and the other on a bolt. The climbing falls were scarier.
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